If you want help identifying a mushroom, its important to include pictures of the whole mushroom (uprooted and intact), with views of the side, top and underside.

If you can include information on whether the mushroom changes colour when cut or bruised, what kind of trees were around (or what kind of habitat you picked the mushroom in), smell, and a spore print colour (if you had one) then that also helps.

Finally, remember that identifying a mushroom with any degree of certainty when you can't get hold of it is impossible; before eating anything you've found, make sure you cross check your ID with a local expert and/or a good guide book.

Remember, there are old mushroom pickers, and there are bold mushroom pickers, but there are no old, bold mushroom pickers

Onto plants, if you're looking for help identifying fruit, it is important to include a picture of leaves from the plant too, whether its a tree, what the plant looked like (how big, whether its woody, is it bushy, etc.), where it grew, etc. The more information you can give, the better chance ther is that someone can identify it for you.

For smaller plants and 'greens', nothing is quite so distinsuishing as the flower. So if you possibly can, a shot of the flower is invaluable. But also smell, texture, habitat, etc. All of these details are useful.

Lastly, always remember that identifying a sample from a description or even a good picture online is a hard task, and it is impossible to ever do so with absolute certainty. Use your own noggin too and check any suggested ID; be safe when eating wild foods!

Guys, can I remind you of this post? Especially if you want help ID'ing a shroom, its worth bearing in mind what we need to make the most accurate stab we can. Its ain't always easy working out what kind of shroom it is, you can make our lives easier if you follow these guidelines.

I believe that this is now the best place to go online to get this kind of advice. At least, its the best one I know of, its where I would post pics to get guidance. We've got some super contributors who can help you, if you help them to do so

The first one is some kind of umbellifer - maybe Queen Anne's lace. Need to wait to see the flowers. Don't under any circumstances eat unknown umbellifers.

Ain't Queen Annes Lace. Most likely ID considering appearance and location is cow parsley. Whats it smell like? Is there masses of it? The leaf stalks, what shape are they in profile, and are they hollow? Any hairs on them? The colour of the stems looks quite uniform. And I'll ask this again, because for me this is the key thing... Whats it smell like?

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The second one you've got two different thinks there - the right hand picture looks like Jack-in-the-hedge aka garlic mustard, but the thing on the left with pink flowers is red dead nettle.

Yep, spot on.

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The third is arum lillies I think - and if I recall - quite poisonous.

What do you think Cab?

About the arum? Potentially lethal.

I think you're right on the periwinkle too, and of course the goosegrass.

Regarding chervil and cow parsley, they're not the same plant, but chervil is one of the nearest wild relatives of chervil. Really rather different though.